The New Ways for Families® Basic Training video is a 6-hour course taught by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., President of High Conflict Institute, who developed the method. New Ways for Families is a method for helping families in separation and divorce. It is intended to inoculate families from becoming high-conflict in the court process, and can also help families after court with difficult co-parenting issues.

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How Does New Ways for Families Work?

A structured parenting skills method designed to reduce the impact of conflict on children in potentially high-conflict cases. Available in Book and DVD, New Ways for Families® can be used whenever a parent or the court believes one parent needs restricted parenting (supervised, no contact, limited time), at the start of a case or any time a parent requests restricted parenting including after the divorce or separation. This method emphasizes strengthening skills for positive future behavior (new ways), rather than focusing on past negative behavior while still acknowledging it. Contact us for more information about completing the training and receiving a Certificate of Completion.

Video Info

How the Online Video Purchase Works

Within one business day after you purchase the training, you will receive instructions for taking the online course.

Author/Presenter Info

Bill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator and the President of High Conflict Institute. He is the developer of the “New Ways for Families® method of managing potentially high conflict families in and out of family court. Bill developed the “High Conflict Personality” theory (HCP Theory) and has become an international expert on managing disputes involving high conflict personalities and personality disorders. He provides training on this subject to lawyers, judges, mediators, managers, human resource professionals, businesspersons, healthcare administrators, college administrators, homeowners’ association managers, ombudspersons, law enforcement, therapists and others. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 35 states and 10 countries.

As an attorney, Bill was a Certified Family Law Specialist in California and the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. Prior to becoming an attorney in 1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years’ experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years and he is on the part-time faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College. He is the author of numerous articles and more than 13 books, including:

5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

High Conflict People in Legal Disputes

It’s All YOUR Fault! 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything